to all of you.
002:006 In the case of such a person the punishment which was inflicted
by the majority of you is enough.
002:007 So that you may now take the opposite course, and forgive him
rather and comfort him, for fear he should perhaps be driven
to despair by his excess of grief.
002:008 I beg you therefore fully to reinstate him in your love.
002:009 For in writing to you I have also this object in view--
to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be
obedient in every respect.
002:010 When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it;
for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything,
has always been for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
002:011 for fear Satan should gain an advantage over us.
For we are not ignorant of his devices.
002:012 Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News
about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door
stood open before me,
002:013 yet, obtaining no relief for my spirit because I did not find our
brother Titus, I bade them farewell and went on into Macedonia.
002:014 But to God be the thanks who in Christ ever heads our
triumphal procession, and by our hands waves in every place
that sweet incense, the knowledge of Him.
002:015 For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom
He is saving and in those who are perishing;
002:016 to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death,
and to the others an odor of life predictive of life.
And for such service as this who is competent?
002:017 We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent
hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives,